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Xbox Linux Made Possible Without a Modchip
An anonymous reader writes "Free-X have released an exploit for the Xbox that will let you get Linux on the machine without any hardware mods at all... Microsoft is already threatening them with legal action. Here's the Free-X statement. Free-X say they had been trying to contact MS for a month but were ignored, which is why they've released the exploit. Should be interesting to watch this one."
Trust me, these guys will go down for the count if Microsoft hires a female lawyer.
"From now on today will be known as XBox Independence Day!"
"She's a West Texas girl, just like me" - G.W Bush Iraqis
Dear Public,
Today is a very said day for Microsoft.
Especially if you're using their spelling / grammar software.
I like big butts and I cannot lie.
Microsoft shouldn't fight this too much. More Xbox loss leader sales will mean more game title sales, even if (or because of) piracy increases.
Who am I kidding? Bend over Bill, here comes the Penguin!
There's definitely a big risk of zdnet going down, as it's hosted by a 14 year old with a 333 running Apache in console mode (Win98sr2) on a dsl connection and all...
MS: Damn it! Doesn't Free-X know we made XBox so that people could play games on it.
Free-X: Err... yes we did just that. We played on it a bit and voila!... its now linuXBox!! *grin*
MS: @#!**@###***
Since it is on the website, google will probably cache it meaning it will not be lost. :) And even if MS orders to take their site down, google will still have it.
This is the law were talking about here. There is no room for such concepts..
I like how the Free-X (box) team thinks. Let me try this out:
I am requesting that my post be moderated up to +5 or I will release pictures of Slashdot moderators in compromising positions with various farm animals.
Please note this is just a request, not a demand.
In a few days Michael Robertson will announce Lindows Xbox Edition.
New features? The ability to completely hiijack a competitors hardware technology.
If you use Linux, please help development of Autopac
Learning is not "illigal"?
Perhaps you should exercise your "rite", then.
And that's exactly what the Microsoft chimps are thinking right now. How the hell are they going to be able to sue someone if they dont even know where the hell it is? I mean, come on, who REALLY knows where Austria is that hasn't been there already? (Looks around) My point exactly. Hell, half the posters on here think its AUSTRAILIA.
Having help doesn't make you look guilty, it makes you look prepared and intellegent. The way these guys handled their communications (spelling errors and all) makes them look like out of control destructive teenagers.
I would have been interested in your opinion, but your spelling error made you sound like an out of control and destructive teenager. Okay, maybe one error means you could be in your twenties, posibly with some slight degree of control, but the destructive tendencies are undeniable. Could you submit a longer writing sample for analysis?
...well, it's at +4 now, so somebody has something to hide :)
Can't pass this one up. Emphasis mine.
I would have been interested in your opinion, but your spelling error made you sound like an out of control and destructive teenager. Okay, maybe one error means you could be in your twenties, posibly with some slight degree of control, but the destructive tendencies are undeniable. Could you submit a longer writing sample for analysis?
Enough said.
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So you're saying they post on Slashdot? ;)
"Yeah, well, Dracula called and he's coming over tonight for you and I said okay."
"Today is a very said day for Microsoft."
If they can't even spell correctly in the opening sentence of their world-shaking statement, how the hell are people supposed to take them seriously?
Bah.
> The DMCA? Last time I checked American law wasn't a global thing.
We're working on fixing that.
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reread the article.
Austria != Australia
One is in Europe the others somwhere way the hell on the other side of the globe.
One has kangaroos, the other has... what the hell does Austria have, except apparently good hackers?
You're not from the US, are you ?
"640k underflow should be enough to hack an Xbox."
The obvious thing for Microsoft to do is to install a video camera in the box so that they can insure proper use.